Anthropology 103

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Anthropology

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The study of human nature, human society, and human past

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Ethnography

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Ethnographies are partial truths where the researcher attempts to describe, intrepret and analyze in cultural terms that are meaningful to them.

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Ethnocentrism

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Ethnocentrism is the belief that other people's cultures can be judged, not on their own terms, but according to the standards of one's own culture (as superior)

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Diffusionism

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The theory that non-European cultures would “progress” and change as European culture spread around the world.

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Historical Particularism

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Each culture is a product of its unique history and cannot be compared with or judged by the standards of other cultures (means to defend the integrity of
indigenous societies)

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Cultural Relativism

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the doctrine that all cultures are equally valid and should be
evaluated “on their own terms”